Geraldo Rivera

Television personality Geraldo Rivera, 74, faces a groping allegation from singer Bette Midler that dates back several years. On November 30, Midler tweeted #MeToo with a video of a 1991 interview she did with Barbara Walters. During the interview, Midler claimed Rivera and a producer he was with had pushed her into a bathroom, pushed two poppers (slang for the recreational drug alkyl nitrite) under her nose and groped her. “He was unseemly,” Midler told Walters. In the same year the interview took place, Rivera was releasing a memoir about his alleged sexual encounters and mentioned Midler. “We were in the bathroom, preparing for the interview, and at some point I put my hands on her breasts,” he wrote, as reported by the Washington Post at the time. Rivera responded to the allegation on December 1 with a tweet that said he recalled the time much differently than Midler, but “that does not change the fact that she has a right to speak out and demand an apology from me, for in the very least, publically embarrassing her all those years ago.” He ended his tweet with an apology to Midler. Photo from Getty Images.

This article only mentions allegations made against high-profile personalities in the entertainment industry, and does not mention others who have been accused of sexual misconduct since the #MeToo campaign went viral last month.